UPDATED: Goodbye Erica Kane. It is a sad day for soap fans, who are losing two more long-running daytime dramas. After relentless speculation over the past couple of months that ABC will cancel at least one of its three daytime soaps, the network today announced it will pull the plug on bothAll My Children and One Life To Live. All My Children will end its 41-year run in September, One Life to Live will bow out in January after 43 years. They will be replaced by two new unscripted shows, The Chew and The Revolution, respectively. The move leaves General Hospital as the only soap in ABC’s daytime lineup.

Produced by Gordon Elliot (Paula Deen’s Home Cooking), The Chew is a live show about anything and everything related to the world of food and beyond. Hosts include Mario Batali (Iron Chef America), Clinton Kelly (TLC’s What Not to Wear), Carla Hall (Bravo’s Top Chef), Michael Symon (Iron Chef America), nutrition expert Daphne Oz and chef Danny Boome. The Revolution, from JD Roth and 3 Ball Prods. (The Biggest Loser), is a daily show about health and lifestyle transformations. The show, starring fashion expert Tim Gunn as well as celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak and American Idol alum Kimberley Locke, each week follows one woman’s five-month weight loss journey, which unfold in five days, with daily results and a final transformational reveal on Friday.

With the drumbeat of a pending ABC daytime drama cancellation getting louder, attention focused on this week, which marked ABC daytime president Brian Frons’ return from vacation, as decision time. The writing had been on the wall: With ratings for daytime dramas continuing to decline, CBS and NBC had already pared down the number of their soaps, with CBS canceling The Guiding Light and As The World Turns and NBC pulling Passions. With three daytime dramas, ABC had as many as CBS and NBC combined, with AMC and OLTL ranking dead last in total viewers and AMC recently hitting a series of all-time lows in the key women 18-49 demographic. The only possible reason for ABC to keep that many soaps around, sister cable network SoapNet, which repurposes the series, is going away, replaced by Disney Jr next year. So the only question was what type of shows ABC would replace its soaps with. “While we are excited about our new shows and the shift in our business, I can’t help but recognize how bittersweet the change is,” Frons said today in making the announcement. “We are taking this bold step to expand our business because viewers are looking for different types of programming these days. They are telling us there is room for informative, authentic and fun shows that are relatable, offer a wide variety of opinions and focus on ‘real life’ takeaways.” He also stressed the new shows’ “enormous opportunity for the creation of ancillary businesses and growth.” They also appear much cheaper than the dramas they are replacing.

As for AMC and OLTL, “they are iconic pieces of television that have made an indelible mark on our culture’s history,” Frons said. Both shows were created by Agnes Nixon. AMC is headlined by one of the most recognizable soap stars, Susan Lucci, who has been on the show since the very beginning playing Erica Kane, dubbed the most famous daytime soap character of all time. All My Children, which revolved around the lives of the residents of fictional Pine Valley, premiered on ABC on Jan. 5, 1970, as a half-hour show; it was expanded to an hour seven years later. One Life to Live, set in the fictional town of Llanview, debuted on ABC on July 15, 1968, also as a half-hour show. Ten years later, it was expanded to a full hour. Notable alumni of the two soaps include Kelly Ripa, Josh Duhamel, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Melissa Leo, Christian Slater and Amanda Seyfried (AMC) and Ryan Phillippe, Nathan Fillion, Marcia Cross, Tommy Lee Jones and Judith Light (OLTL).

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AFTRA, which represents all daytime drama performers, including the casts of AMC and OLTL, issued a statement, calling the cancellations “a devastating loss for thousands of AFTRA members, union crew members and production staff in Los Angeles and New York.” (AMC is based in Los Angeles, where it was moved from New York in 2009 to cut costs. OLTL is being produced in New York.) AFTRA representatives are communicating with affected members in both cities to ensure they are fully informed of their rights and benefits under the AFTRA Network Television Code. Additionally, AFTRA is in contact with ABC representatives to oversee as smooth a transition as possible for these performers.”

WGAE, which represents daytime drama writers, said it was “deeply disappointed” by the cancellations. “These groundbreaking shows have provided entertainment and enlightenment to millions of viewers, and have provided good employment to dozens of talented, dedicated writers,” the union said. “We urge the company to reconsider.”

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Martin A. • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Yawn to health/lifestyle shows. RIP soap operas.

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michelle maloney • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

There are a few simple pleasures left in this society. Soaps good or bad are a part of the American dream. I think it is time as a nation to boycott ABC. They keep bad shows, but cancel good ones…

Time for a Vote! • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

ABC should take a vote before they cancel AMC!
Put a toll free phone number on the screen in between commercials and have everyone call in that does not want it cancelled! Also put an email address on the screen so everyone has a chance to vote!

This will show just how popular AMC is!

Kathy • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

That is a great idea. I can already see all of the posts and petitions online. Setting up a toll free number to get the opinion of the people who want their soaps on the air is a great idea. Whether they will do that or not is another story!

billie furgerson • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

LEAVE MY SOAPS ON THE AIR!!! I WILL NOT BE WATCHING YOUR NEW SHOWS,
THERE ARE SHOWS LIKE THAT ON THE AIR–AND I WON’T BE WATCHING THEM OR YOURS. I’m 59 years old and have been watching these shows all my life. Why did you do this without taking a phone poll? Big mistake ABC, I’ll be watching something else unless you keep my shows on !

Brenda Malatesta • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

do not cancel these shows i watch them daily for over 30 years and they are better than general hospital by far and if I miss them I will watch them on soap net or dvr they are icons and i always make a way to see them either dvr of soap net please do not cancel these shows you will be sorry if you do.

Lynette • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

great idea!

Marilyn • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

i AGREE……AND WANT TO THANK HOOVER !!! WE NEED OTHERS STANDING UP I WILL NOT WATCH ABC EVER AGAIN…..

Jen • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

That is a great idea! These shows are great! ABC needs to seriously re-think there decision. Abc should do the poll! They will be suprised on the votes! We don’t need anymore reality shows. ABC Please reconsider, and keep one life to live and AMC Please!

lee jensen • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I agree with you 100%. we need to stop this action some how! ABC needs to re-look at their shows and re-figure. I have followed both of these shows for years; so I can’t believe the ratings are down. Remove the stupid nasty reality shows and leave the soaps alone I say! They do have a great following and people have the right to choose to watch them. ABC needs to re-consider asnd take peoples feelings into consideration … please!

suzannne steele • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

WE have the Food network, and all the food shows on channel 13 OETA on Saturday mornings. I believe it all about money so to sell more products. I am sick of 7 commericals between every segment. It use to be 3 than it went to 5 and now it is 7. I do not want to watch food or clothing. I’m retired and part of the baby boom generation leave us alone and let us watch our soaps.

Anonymous • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I agree! We don’t need another cooking show or reality show! Big mistake to cancel One Life To Live! Please DON’T CANCEL!

Brenda • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I have been watching All My Children for about 25 years now and never tire of it…I have also watched One Life to Live for almost as long.When I had surgery, I watched it at home every day and it gave me a break from my pain. As a business professional , I am not home during the day but I tape it every day to watch in the evenings or on weekends. I know everything seems to be about money in our society right now so I can only assume that someone feels it is not making enough money; therefore you are replacing it with other shows. Unfortunately I and many others will not be watching it. I guess this will free up time on my DVR for evening movies. I think you are making a big mistake. These two shows have launched a huge amount of careers.

Anonymous • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Thank you for voicing what I was thinking! Although I will miss Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy and Dancing with the Stars, I can always catch GH on soapnet. However that one lasts.

Diane • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

This is very sad tohear after 40 years of watching ALL MY CHILDREN as I love the show. There taking off something like that to put food on, so what people can get more addicted to food. I am sorry but they are just putting on to many shows that are not for the eyes to see such as My Strangest Sex Addiction, or My Strangest Addiction with the one eating toliet paper or glass. Good things for showing our children. All My Children did not hurt anyone and ABC will see a decline in TV for that channel as I will not watch it . YOu have way to many shows for food to begin with. Cut them not ones that work. As that saying goes, Do not try to fix it if it is not broke. Your making a very bad decision. I am not alone either this computer will be fullo of poeple who are mad and I mean mad at this decision. I am one of them I enjoyed every day at noon to watch. Your all going crazy I think.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dee • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

i’m with you sister. something good just can’t be lefted alone. i won’t be watching abc. there are so any food & talk show already. ones its gone it will be to bad.50 years of watching good shows is now gone.see ya abc.

laura angela • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Too bad I will never watch ABC again. Big mistake. Those soaps are an important part of alot of homebound elderly people also longtime fans…Goodbye ABC.

Barbara Holmes • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I will NOT be watching ABC anymore,if this is a money move you better remember who supports the younger generations and if they are earning their own lives,they will be working during the hours you will be promoting. ARE YOU INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO CONSIDER THIS FACT? I

connie • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I can not believe that they are cancelling shows I have watched since I was a teenager. I’m now 52. I will not be watching ABC from now on. Everyone doesn’t want to watch reality shows. There ar enough talk shows and cooking shows for a lifetime. Goodbye ABC.

jeanne healy newcott • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

why in the world would you cancel “All my children” and “One life to live” millions of viewers have been watching these shows for decades. Those of us fortunate enough to be employed use our dvr’s or catch it on soap net. The last thing we need is another cooking show. Who ever you had survey the audiences do not take this into conscideration. Fire them ,because you are making a grave mistake and will lose the loyalty of many ABC viewers. I will never watch another show on our Network if theses shows are cancelled and willencourage ohers to follow suit.

mp • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

i agree with you they are making a mistake we can watch it on youtube also so we can watch it all the time.

Eliza O'Donnell • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Probably noone in this town has more influence than Deadline Hollywood. It would be great if you used your influence to get AMC & OLTL on another network. My preference would be Starz, FX, or Showtime, but lots of other networks not affiliated with ABC would be great.TBS, E, Bravo etc. So many people I know would be grateful.

Peggy Solovyov • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

The “excuses” to cancel All My Children and One Life to Live are all LIES. It is cheaper to make reality shows than to make Soaps. That’s the ONLY reason to cancel AMC and OLTL! ABC is cutting women short we don’t get to watch what we want on TV.

NOW THEY WANT TO PUSH COOKING SHOWS AND FASHION SHOWS DOWN OUR THROATS! NO THANKS! The popular magazines already tell us how to improve ourselves–cook/eat better, dress better–oh please! We’re not buying that garbage any more! We don’t want to be controlled by what someone on TV on in a magazine thinks we should eat or wear ANY MORE! And, we should not TOLERATE that a MAN can deny us the shows we want to watch.

The men have sports all weekend, the children have kiddy shows in the morning and after school. Please put a WOMAN in charge of day time TV. She will know what other women like to watch. Why do we have to be left out because some MAN thinks not enough people are watching OLTL and AMC. That is ludicrous.

arlesia graham • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I agree you have hit it right on the nose. I will be one of the ones who will stop watching ABC only general hospital when that is gone so is ABC

Julie McFar • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I have been watching All My Children since 1975. I tape it everyday and watch it when I can. I don’t miss an hour unless something unusual comes about or my vcr doesn’t work. Please don’t cancel the show.

connie gammiere • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

As if we didn’t already have enough stupid food and lifestyle shows that many don’t watch. I tape OLTL and GH everyday and my husband and I both watch them. OLTL is so far superior to GH I can’t believe that they are keeping it and cancelling the others. I bet when they did the ratings count they didn’t count the vast number of people that tape shows and watch them after work. With these leaving and Oprah too there is nothing left to watch on ABC.

Tina Colston • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I agree that OLTL is the best soap on daytime TV!! Other than R&Y.
Maybe CBS Should pick up OLTL!!

ccocina • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

If ABC came into our Credit Union at lunch time, they would be shocked to see how many employees were attached to the tube between 12 and 3. Us old timers, that have been watching OLTL, GH, and AMC since time began,have now inducted the “newer” employees and they are now “hooked”. We all “compare notes”. We know who watches what. What I don’t catch during the day, I catch at night on Soapnet and that is going away as well. Unfortunately, I and several others will not be watching ABC anymore. It is so sad as we will not be watching the replacement shows either.

Tina Colston • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I think they should keep Soap Net and keep all the employee’s of the soaps employed! I have been watching soaps since 1975. My Grandmother and Father even had their favorite soaps that they watched during lunch. They have cancelled my Father’s Soap, and now he reads most of the time. The TV is TURNED OFF!!!

This is be better for our country, to get people up off their butt’s, (Couch Potatoes). ABC’s viewers will do the same. TURN THE TV OFF!! We do not want more talk show’s!

Anonymous • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I think ABC should be ashamed of themselves. If reality TV goes into these time slots, I for one, will have no part in it. That’s why I love the Soaps……All of the Housewives shows, how realistic is that. None of my friends or myself live like that. At least the soaps gives us something to wonder about……….

Gertrude Gutt • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

The largest viewing audience is for the soaps between 1pm-4pm!! This network (?) will fail by

finding out the hard way-no viewing audiences. There are too many “talk” shows on T.V. already!!!

Judy • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I am so disappointed with ABC cancelling AMC and OLTL. I rarely watch t.v. and these soaps are my entertainment. Who wants another food show? I get so sick of seeing the strange looking people who are going to host “The Chew”. I won’t be watching ABC ANYMORE!! I didn’t get asked what I thought and it sounds like a lot of other people didn’t either! Why? Why? Why? Sad.

Graymo

Lori • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

this is just sickening……. please dont take them away from us…and a stupied cooking show ..my gawd dont you think there are enough of those …your ratings will really suck now …..

Nancy • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

OH MY GOD!! REALLY?
You took of a 41 year old show for another cooking show? I mean seriously?
I thought I’d give CHEW a try. I don’t see anything that is so great that you would take All My Children ff the air.
Same Movie just different actors.
I watch The View and then go to another network until 2pm for One Life to Live. I heard that’s going too. No use in watching ABC
in the afternoon if that happens. Carry one I only one little fish in the pond, I just had to complain. I”m tired of Talk Shows,Game shows, you got yhe picture.
I know that all of this is about the bottom line and some newly graduated college kid or ( family member )had a great idea. This was it.

Unhappy,

Nancy

jake • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

WOW! I wish they could have just shortened each show to half an hour. Soaps are just too expensive and the ratings are not worth it anymore. too bad.

G • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Seriously. Or if not a 1/2 hour, shorten the airings to 2-3x a week.

Todd • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

DANG!!!

Sad, but not that surprising.

thebigham • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

No effing way!!!

Josh • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Discusted. A cooking show ? HELLO BRIAN FRONS! ANYBODY HOME ? There is a food network that has 24 hour programming of that. Why would someone want to watch it on ABC ? What a moron

sethJ • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I’m pretty sure they know it’s not going to last either — what you’ll see is a near constant revolving door of cookign shows, talk shows, game shows, etc, until something clicks in that time slot.

JudyB • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

probably another Jerry Springer spot! you know, the ones with all the intelligent 20’s people, screaming at each other and then beating up on one another. give me a break!

Christine • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Frons is a jerk, I want my soaps on TV!!!!!!!!!!! less chat more splat!

Gen • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Well there you have it, another negative side effect of the obesity epidemic. Well what can you do? Apparently fat, unhealthy people need TV to tell them how to behave.

PH • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

By all means…..lets continue to have fat SIT and watch TV instead of doing a little moving. All they do is watch and think,hmmm I really don’t look like that, do I? come on …..

XYZ • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Sit and watch people get healthy! Sit and watch people get rich! Sit and watch people pursue their occupational dreams!

Michael DiGaetano • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

And I guess they have timed the final episodes to correspond with the death from old age of their last viewer.

cali5 • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Another notch in the belt of cheap, reality programming. What a annoying, disgusting move by the network. And OLTL has been doing an excellent job in its storylines lately.

cali5 • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Oh, and a special shout out to Les Moonves and CBS for paving the way to this destruction of an entertaining way of storytelling — and for putting a lot of people out of work.

redmenace • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Les Moonves job isn’t to keep “an entertaining way of storytelling” on television or to keep people employed.Les answers to the shareholders, and I doubt any of the shareholders give a damn about a dying form of entertainment that doesn’t produce profits.

Anonymous • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Moonves is a good guy. He has continued supporting Bold and The Beautiful and Young and the Restless. It was a shame what happened with Guding Light and As the World Turns though.

suzanne steele • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

And you think a food show and a clothing show is going to bring profits. You have got to be out of your mind. People are sick of food shows and food commericals. We have a problem in this country with overweight we certainly do not need to add to it with this kind of programing.

Bernadine Nutt • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

The soaps are entertainment for a lot of people that have watched for years, Who needs another cooking show or clothing show? No one! I also will not be tuning to ABC.

Mark • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Moonves runs CBS not ABC.

cali5 • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I know — I was referring to Les Moonves and CBS cancelling their daytime programs to replace them with game shows and talk shows (which I don’t watch).

And to the person above — I beg to differ, it is Moonves and any/all network executive’s jobs to provide entertaining storytelling.

redmenace • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

cali5, you are wrong.Les Moonves’ job, like any executives of any major company is to make money.Your personal feelings or bias doesn’t change the fact that an executive is a businessman, and businessmen jobs are to make money.Your incidence that Les and all network executives job is to cater to your taste only shows you are a part of this me generation that thinks everything should be free, they deserve things they didn’t earn, and their opinions are always right.

JudyB • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

especially the latest, focusing on bullying and teen suicide.

Nicky • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I wish there was a Brian Fellows talk show

Gotonemo • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Excellent.

Candice • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I can’t believe that you would take out OLTL and leave GH untouched! I stopped watching that silly show two years ago because it became the daytime version of the Sopranos. You are doomed to fail if you think that some “life style/food show” will bring you an audience. Interesting storylines would have done the trick instead of the constant retreads that we’ve gotten for the past few years. Shame on you for abandoning your daytime audience.

Herb Finn • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I am surprised they didn’t add a game show to the mix.

mbm • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

end of an era…

looks like we also know the fate of Project Runway after next season…

mike • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

What the hell is ABC thinking replacing these shows with boring shows… This is the stupidest idea that ABC came out with

Lytton Strachey • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Who needs actors ?

Harly • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

They have networks for everything else, so why not start a classic coap opera network, that airs only old classic soaps that aren’t on anymore. Then these two shows, and the other cancelled ones can be shows for years and years. (And the actresses on them stay young!) Soapnet failed because it aired current shows, but just air old ones, of shows not on anymore, then the shows aren’t competing with themselves.

cas127 • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

It exists and is called SoapNet.

Has been around for years.

Carl • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

They haven’t aired “classic soaps” on SoapNet in years.

And, like AMC & OLTL, it’ll be dead by next February.

the tenor • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I just wonder if there will come a time when they start creating scripted television for Daytime, that more emulates the Primetime or 13-episode season model…

Though, the way things are going… the days of time-slotted television are gonna be a thing of the past, much like the “soap operas” that were killed by them. If you can watch the goods of primetime on your TiVo or Computer or whatever streamable device, why would you want to watch a soap.

DISCLAIMER: I am a dihard soap fan that lost my two all-time favorite soaps in the past two years… “Guiding Light” and “As The World Turns”. It saddens me, but the reality is what it is. Not sure how much longer “Y&R”, “GH”, “B&B” and “Days” can last in this black hole of a daytime reality.

Tuptim • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

This is very sad for working actors. All those Day Player, Recurring and Under-5 roles gone. Daytime just could not keep up with the changing landscape of TV, and now actors lose a vital source of income and multi-camera experience.

Donny with a D • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

If I hadn’t seen Susan Lucci alluding to this (in an interview a few months ago, where stated she is looking into the 30 minute sit com format) I wouldn’t believe it. Say Good Bye to an era. FOR NOW. Until someone on cable resurrects the Daytime Soap and is called a vunderkind.

slim • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

As someone who has worked on both but hardly watched either, I am not sure I am all that invested. I guess it’s time to make some calls and try to score a couple more paychecks before the end comes. Nothing beats getting two paychecks for one day’s worth of work because your scenes start at the end of one episode, end on the next one and both end up being shot on the same day. Ah…those were some happy weeks.

OK that’s the end of my OLTL reminiscing

Gravity's Silhouette • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Somewhat preventable…soap operas, as a format, are way behind the times. They had become creatively stagnant…viewers can only handle so many evil-twins, “romantic triangles”, and back-from-the-dead sub-plots before tiring and moving on.

Jerry • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

You can thank the unions

Garry • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

Go back to Drudge or where ever you came from.
The unions had nothing to do with this.
Low ratings & huge casts did them in!
Read the fucking story!

FunkDubious • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I can’t see what ratings have to do with it. I watched OLTL when I was a kid and i am OLD. Soaps are an American institution. Cancelling these shows is about squeezing out more ad revenue. I mean if James Franco can play a psychotic artist/serial killer it’s clear that these people will watch anything. ABC execs just figured they could pad their annual bonuses by cutting payroll as opposed to contributing anything. Dollars and cents like everything else.

Breanna • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

These new shows will FAIL! Not only will their formats stay stagnant (plus you can watch The Food Network, The Biggest Loser, and Bravo, instead), but people will be mad there are no soaps (except for GH) and leave ABC Daytime all together. In a year when things are not going well, Frons will lose his job and this will be seen as a big mistake. CBS has two soaps and other shows to build around (The Price Is Right, etc). ABC just killed their daytime viewership.

Robyn • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I think they should leave it alone. I have been watching them forever. I cut school the first day All My Children came on so I could watch it. We don’t need anymore talk and reality shows.

nyguy • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

This is jaw-dropping news. I expected at least a total revamp of AMC because it is unwatchable but OLTL is still in its prime. Daytime profits used to support nighttime and everything is cyclical. Do they really think they can start these things from scratch? And now more wonderful actors and crackerjack crews are out of jobs.

Caren nelson • on Apr 14, 2011 11:23 am

I absolutely agree!! I have been watching since I was 4 years old and I cannot imagine Daytime TV without these shows. I admit I haven’t watched these 2 for awhile, but I am definitely nervous for General Hospital now…I am still mourning Knot’s Landing though:0)
Scripted TV seems to be doomed…